The Garbage Dump: 100+ pages of well-aged compost

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

[Adiwan]

You know that situation where you want to buy product X but instead you end up buying product Y that's similar and was right next to it but you blindly grabbed the wrong thing?

I wanted to buy pineapple juice because I enjoy it from time to time.
Instead I grabbed a tropic fruit mix that was right next to the pineapple juice with a similar packaging.
It contains pineapple but also crap I don't like like mango, maracuja (passion fruit), banana, and on top of that orange (I like orange but not in that combination).

[Orange Fluffy Sheep]

You know that situation where you want to buy product X

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

art

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

survival of the fittest, leeeoooonaaaaaard

[Fizzbuzz]

The classic Livestream channel that constantly showed it on repeat is sadly gone, but I learned that all of Foodfight! is on YouTube and no one has cared to take it down in the two and a half years it's been uploaded.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

excellent

[Adiwan]

I wasn't prepared for that.
And neither am I afterwards.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

[Mechanical Ape]

You know that situation where you want to buy product X but instead you end up buying product Y that's similar and was right next to it but you blindly grabbed the wrong thing?

I wanted to buy pineapple juice because I enjoy it from time to time.
Instead I grabbed a tropic fruit mix that was right next to the pineapple juice with a similar packaging.
It contains pineapple but also crap I don't like like mango, maracuja (passion fruit), banana, and on top of that orange (I like orange but not in that combination).

When in doubt, add ketchup.

[Smoke]

We really should do a Foodfight! paintube again, maybe add in some other stuff as well.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

Lawrence Kasanoff and a Threshold Entertainment employee named Joshua Wexler created the concept in 1999.[8] A $25 million joint investment into the project was made by Threshold and the Korean investment company Natural Image. The producers expected that foreign pre-sales and loans against the sales would provide the remaining portion of the budget. The estimated remainder was $50 million.[6]

The film was created and produced by the digital effects shop at Threshold, located in Santa Monica, California in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. In late 2002/early 2003, Kasanoff reported that hard drives containing most unfinished assets from the film had been stolen in what he called an act of "industrial espionage" and "an incredibly complex crime", saying "They got into the cold room, a room within a room within a room." An investigation, which included the United States Secret Service, was unable to find the thief.[6][13] The film was supposed to be computer-animated, with an exaggerated use of "squash and stretch" to resemble the Looney Tunes shorts, but after production resumed in 2004, Kasanoff changed it to a style more centered in motion capture, with the result being that "he and animators were speaking two different languages".[14]

Lionsgate established a distribution deal and the financing company StoryArk represented investors who gave $20 million in funding to Threshold in 2005 due to the Lionsgate deal, the celebrity voice actors, and the product tie-ins.[14] A release date in 2005 was later announced, but missed. Another distribution deal was struck in 2007, but again, nothing came of it.[13] Lionsgate had a negative reaction to the delays. The investors had grown impatient due to the film production company defaulting on its secured promissory note and the release dates that were not met.[14] Finally, in 2011, the film was auctioned for $2.5 million.[13] StoryArk investors had ultimately invoked a clause in their contract that allowed the Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, which had insured Foodfight!, to complete and release the film as inexpensively and quickly as possible.[14] Animator Ken Bailey stated that "The film was already ruined. They were just trying to salvage what they could."[15]

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

so, there was someone doing those moves for mr clipboard

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

it being (bad) motion capture explains why movement looks so weird

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

except for mr clipboard, his is perfect

[Mr. Big]

There should be a book all about the making of this movie. Everything about the production is a disaster

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

agreed

[Mr. Big]

Tiny legs

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

haha

[Princess Flufflebutt]

I have this book.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

but do you have the chair

[Princess Flufflebutt]

no...

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

you ever wonder just how many people are actually active on this board

[Angel Beat]

no

[RIP Syndrome]

<ero

[RIP Syndrome]

zerp

[RIP Syndrome]

zero

[Gloomy Rube]

the only one active on this forum is picklepaige

[Fizzbuzz]

Let's not forget GreySeer, one of our most faithful lurkers, whose name I have seen at the bottom of pages now and then since back on the old forums.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

[Mechanical Ape]

TRS is actually just one very busy electron displacing itself in time

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

deep

[Perpetual Motion]

There are enough.

[Mr. Big]

Here's something neat. Sam Katzman was a film producer notorious for cutting corners everywhere in the film budget. So when he produced a live-action Superman film, he got around not having to spend too much money on Supes flying by simply having it animated traditionally, then superimposed over live-action.

Check out that clip above. You can easily tell when they switch to drawn animation (and tried to disguise it by having it be super quick, or by having Supes be really far away when flying)

More here

[Mechanical Ape]

I think it works well. It’s easy to see the switch to cartoon mode, but it also allows for better-looking stunts because you’re not limited by physical props/stunt people.

It’s a darn sight better than Clutch Cargo, I’ll tell you that!

[Octavia]

you ever wonder just how many people are actually active on this board

30 or so? Which makes it all the more hilarious that a script kiddie spent money to get it DDoS'd.

[Pocket]

So, not to bore you with the gory details, but a while back I kinda borked my external hard drive, and the program I'm using to try to restore it came back with some interesting information. The first screen listed only this:

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The harddisk (2000 GB / 1863 GiB) seems too small! (< 5120 GB / 4769 GiB)
Check the harddisk size: HD jumper settings, BIOS detection...

The following partitions can't be recovered:
     Partition               Start        End    Size in sectors
   HPFS - NTFS          243200 254 63 486389  31 43 3906817217
   FAT16 >32M           442958  33 56 622579   0 37 2885609268

This baffled me, because (1) why would it be a red flag that the drive is "only" 2TB, and (2) why is that "start" number so damn high? But then I pressed Continue, and only then did it bother to report the partitions it was able to recover, which included a 2TB NTFS drive stretching roughly from the beginning to where the other one "starts".

And that's when it hit me. I don't think this is a 2TB drive at all. I think it's a FIVE terabyte drive that reported some kind of error when they tested it at the factory, so they marked off the bad part and altered the firmware to make it think only the usable 2TB portion of the platter existed. I've heard of things like this happening with CPUs (one core will turn out bad, so they'll disable it and sell it as a three-core CPU), but never hard drives. And this son of a bitch homebrew recovery program was able to see right through it.

But now I'm curious if there's more usable space on there than they're letting on.

[DaikatunaRevengeance]

interesting

[Madeline]

somebody replaced my brain with a cotton ball while I was asleep

seng help and a new brain please

[Princess Flufflebutt]

Oh sorry. I borrowed it to help me render this meme I just made, I'll return it p soon k?